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Abortion Should Be Outlawed
Attention Getter: America formally declared its independence from Great Britain on July 4th 1776. As the founding fathers severed ties with the old country and denounced tyrannical despotism, they catalogued several truths that they held to be "self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" (Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence). Over two hundred years later, at least one of these truths ceases to be "self-evident" as Federal Law currently does not agree that all individuals are endowed with a right to Life. Semantic dances are erected to devalue the life of a human embryo, so that it is reduced to simple cells or tissues unworthy of rights. Rather than referring to the unborn child, we now designate such an individual as a fetus that is a more technical, "less human" term that makes people more......

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